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...baseball swap, the New York Yankees talked the Baltimore Orioles out of seven players, including "Bullet" Bob Turley, one of the best pitchers in the American League. In exchange, the second-division Orioles picked up aging Outfielder Gene Woodling, weak-hitting Infielder Willie Miranda and seven other...
...teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block and tackle loaded with weights, and twisting a wrist roller, Captain Kirn...
...Communists themselves fell to quarreling openly. Some complained that "the kulaks have become impertinent"; the Communist Central Committee had to announce that it would not tolerate the "recurrent anti-peasant mood." Pudgy, bullet-headed Old Bolshevik Matyas Rakosi, no longer undisputed boss of Hungary, decried the "danger of right-wing tendencies," but the party organ Szabad Nep criticized instead "the narrow-mindedness and sectarianism of certain left-wing individuals...
They Laid Him Low. One day early this month, a rifleman waited patiently in the tall corn near the home pasture, until, at twilight, Webb began to plow. The legend was that Webb wore armor and could only be killed by a bullet in the brain. The marksman aimed carefully, and at 200 feet his aim was true. He fired twice again-while daughter Ursley Jean raised her father in her arms-and hit Webb twice again, but the first bullet was enough...
...prince, aged 29, lured Rasputin to the basement of his St. Petersburg home and, while accomplices played Yankee Doodle on the phonograph upstairs, fed him cakes and wine sprinkled with cyanide. The dose, "sufficient to kill several men instantly," merely made Rasputin sleepy, so the prince put a bullet into his body. But Rasputin still had the energy to stagger into the courtyard before four more bullets ended the life of pre-Communist Russia's most hated man. Author Youssoupoff, now 67 and living in Paris, often bogs down in mediocre writing and puerile prejudices, but tells a fine...